Mar 28th, 2017 Article
Hazel Irvine to quit BBC Golf
Hazel Irvine will front the BBC's coverage of the Masters for the final time in April 2017.
Aug 19th, 2020 Article
Once again the BBC lets down golf
Was I surprised to hear that the BBC were going to assign highlights of the Women's Open to the graveyard slot on BBC 2? Not in the slightest. This so-called public broadcasters run by the liberal elite sitting in their ivory towers and spending almost £4 billion of our licence fee dosh deserted golf years ago.
Apr 5th, 2017 Article
Last Masters for Peter Alliss?
Peter Alliss has said in an interview with Newsweek that this could be his last season commentating for the BBC at the Masters.
Nov 20th, 2019 Article
BBC gives up The Masters
For the first time since 1955 there will be no live coverage of any golf on the BBC in 2020. The BBC has lost their rights to show any live coverage of the Augusta event which means that the UK pay TV Channel Sky is now the only place to watch live coverage of the majors. This is the end game for millions of golf fans who have seen the free to air coverage of their favourite sport fade and die in the hands of the BBC over the past decade.
Mar 30th, 2017 Article
How will you be watching The Masters?
Golf Care have conducted a survey on over 4,000 British golfers to reveal the nations habits and behaviours during The Masters. Here are their findings.
Jul 16th, 2021 Article
I miss you, Peter Alliss
Call me old fashioned and perhaps I am showing my advancing years but watching the Open isn’t what it used to be. That all-day free coverage on the BBC from the early hours until the early evening with the only requirement being to on occasion switch between BBC 1 and BBC 2.
Nov 25th, 2016 Article
11–year old boy finishes dawn to dusk golf Challenge
Charley Simpson, an 11-year old sports scholar at Rydal Penrhos, has just ten hours to complete a special challenge, which saw him play the best hole at 18 different courses along the North Wales coast.
Dec 7th, 2020 Article
RIP Peter Alliss
The game of golf has lost one of its greats. Peter Allis who was the 'Voice of golf' and commentated on golf for the BBC for some six decades, passed away suddenly on Saturday night. To us, he was simply the best! "It is with great sadness we announce the passing of golfing and broadcast legend Peter Alliss," said Alliss' family.
Dec 17th, 2018 Article
Francesco Molinari wins
Francesco Molinari has won the World Sport Star of the Year at the BBC's Sports Personality show, and deservedly so after a remarkable 2018 season.
Mar 16th, 2017 Article
BBC extend Masters rights
The BBC has agreed an extension to its deal to broadcast the Masters, so the broadcaster hasn't completely thrown in the towel over its golf coverage.
Aug 5th, 2018 Article
Golf returns to terrestrial TV at Glasgow 2018
This week’s inaugural European Golf Team Championships at Gleneagles not only represents history with men and women playing together in a unique format for equal prize money – it also sees the return of live UK golf to free-to-air TV.
Jul 17th, 2019 Article
The Open should be free for all
Why is the golf now only on Sky TV in the UK with the BBC set to produce, if last year is anything to go by, a set of very ordinary highlights programmes? Who is to blame - Sky, the BBC, the politicians, the R&A or perhaps even Brexit?
